"LDM is one of a growing number of literary events that deliberately seek to subvert audience expectations by taking something the general public perceives as highbrow—serious literature—and making it accessible and fun."

"While amusing, her words reminded me poignantly of just how much of our day-to-day conversation is preoccupied with things, not ideas or feelings, and in the final analysis, just how meaningless things can be."

“While the days of a Norman Mailer threatening to take this shit outside are, like the five-martini lunch and freelance writing budgets, no longer the norm, at least the Literary Death Match offers the spectacle of writers squaring off.”

"The winner of the Literary Death Match was Lisa Suckdog, hands down. She took something as esoteric as getting fired for discussing piss-drinking and turned it into an inspiring manifesto anyone can get excited about."

"Opium’s Literary Death Match is a competitive, humor-centric reading series that features four readers (who represent print and online literary concerns) in an edge-of-your-seat read-off, all critiqued by three all-star judges."